Leo FranklynLeo FranklynLeo Franklyn (7 April 1897 – 17 September 1975) was an English
actor. Much of his early career was in Edwardian musical comedy; in
his later career he was chiefly associated with farce.
In the years between the First and Second World Wars, Franklyn was a
well-known performer in musical comedies, appearing in both British
and American shows. He spent ten years performing in Australia in
musical comedies. From the 1940s he appeared regularly in pantomime as
the Dame.
From the 1950s to his death he was principally associated with British
farces
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IMDb
IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of
information related to world films, television programs, home videos
and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production
crew, personnel and fictional character biographies, plot summaries,
trivia, and fan reviews and ratings. An additional fan feature,
message boards, was abandoned in February, 2017. The database is owned
and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. As of
December 2017[update],
IMDbIMDb has approximately 4.7 million titles
(including episodes) and 8.3 million personalities in its database,[2]
as well as 83 million registered users. The movie and talent pages of
IMDbIMDb are accessible to all internet users, but a registration process
is necessary to contribute information to the site.
Most data in the database is provided by volunteer contributors
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Carry On (franchise)
The Carry On series primarily consists of 31 classic British comedy
motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television
series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage
plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the
music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer
Peter Rogers and
director
Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On
team, that included Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan
Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott,
Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, and Jim Dale.
The Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any
British series, and it is the longest continually running UK film
series, although with a fourteen-year break (1978–92)
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Patrick CargillPatrick CargillPatrick Cargill (3 June 1918 – 23 May 1996)[1] was a British
actor remembered for his lead role in the British television sitcom
Father, Dear Father.[2]Contents1 Career1.1 The stage
1.2 Television
1.3 Films
1.4 Music2 Personal life2.1 Death3 References
4 External linksCareer[edit]
Cargill was born to middle-class parents living in Bexhill-on-Sea,
Sussex. After education at Haileybury College, he made his debut in
the Bexhill Amateur Theatrical Society. However, he was aiming for a
military career and was selected for training at the Royal Military
Academy at Sandhurst
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Ray Cooney
Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English
playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983)
ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running
comedy.[1] He has had 17 of his plays performed there.[2]Contents1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Bibliography
4 Filmography4.1 Screenwriter5 References
6 External linksCareer[edit]
Cooney began to act in 1946 appearing in many of the Whitehall farces
of
Brian RixBrian Rix throughout the 1950s and '60s. It was during this time
that he co-wrote his first play One For The Pot. With Tony Hilton, he
co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up!
(1961), which features
Sid JamesSid James and Kenneth Connor.
In 1968 and 1969 Cooney adapted Richard Gordon's Doctor novels for BBC
radio as series starring Richard Briers
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Arthur BroughArthur BroughArthur Brough (born Frederick Arthur Baker; 26 February 1905 – 28
May 1978) was a British actor, best known for portraying the character
of senior menswear salesman Mr. Ernest Grainger on the
BBCBBC sitcom Are
You Being Served?Contents1 Biography1.1 Theatre
1.2 After the war
1.3 Television
1.4 Are You Being Served?
1.5 Related family life2 Credits
3 External linksBiography[edit]
Theatre[edit]
The diminutive actor (5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m))
originally wanted to become a teacher, but failed to gain such
employment, and worked in a solicitor's office. He found this job too
mundane and he began to take an interest in the theatre. After
indulging in amateur theatricals, Brough attended the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art in the mid-1920s. After graduating, he joined a
Shakespearean theatrical troupe, where he met his wife-to-be, actress
Elizabeth Addyman
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Hattie JacquesHattie JacquesHattie Jacques (/dʒeɪks/; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February
1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage,
radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On
films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but
was also a prolific television and radio performer.
Jacques started her career in 1944 with an appearance at the Players'
Theatre in London, but came to national prominence through her
appearances on three highly popular radio series on the BBC: with
Tommy HandleyTommy Handley on It's That Man Again; with ventriloquist Peter Brough
on Educating Archie; and then with
Tony HancockTony Hancock on Hancock's Half
Hour. After the
Second World WarSecond World War Jacques made her cinematic debut in
Green for Danger, in which she had a brief, uncredited role
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Irene HandlIrene HandlIrene Handl (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was an English
character actress who appeared in over a hundred British films.[1]Contents1 Life
2 Career2.1 Films
2.2 Theatre
2.3 Television3 Novels
4 Partial filmography
5 Bibliography
6 Death
7 References
8 External linksLife[edit]
Irene HandlIrene Handl was born in Maida Vale, London, the daughter of an
Austrian banker father, Frederick, and German mother, Maria Schiepp.
She took to acting at the relatively advanced age of 36, and studied
at the acting school run by the sister of Dame Sybil Thorndike. She
made her
LondonLondon stage debut in February 1937 and appeared in over a
hundred British films in supporting roles, mostly comedy character
parts such as slightly eccentric mothers, grannies, landladies and
servants
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Sarah Branch
Sarah Branch (7 January 1938 – 10 November 2007) was an English film
actress and model.Contents1 Life
2 Filmography
3 External links
4 ReferencesLife[edit]
Before appearing in films Sarah Branch modelled wedding gowns at
fashion shows.[1] She acted in four Hammer Film productions. She
played Maid Marian, opposite Richard Greene as Robin Hood, in Sword of
Sherwood Forest.
She went to the progressive co-educational St. Mary's Town and Country
School. She married a stockbroker John Grant Lithiby in 1961, and they
had three children
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Vera PearceVera PearceVera Pearce (1895–1966) was an Australian stage and film actress
whose lengthy career was carried out in both her home country and in
England.[1][2]Contents1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Historical note
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External linksBiography[edit]
Born in
Broken HillBroken Hill (New South Wales), Pearce spent much of her youth
in Adelaide, and made her stage debut there at age five with the
World's Entertainers[3] She went on to train as a juvenile performer
in pantomimes and musical comedies produced by J.C. Williamson Ltd,
and in 1910 scored much acclaim for her role in the Firm's hit
production Our Miss Gibbs (1910).[4]
After making her film debut in The Shepherd of the Southern Cross
(1914), Pearce went to England with the aim of carving out a career
there but was induced to return to Australia shortly afterwards by
Hugh D
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Liz FraserLiz FraserLiz Fraser (born Elizabeth Joan Winch; 14 August 1930)[1] is a
BAFTA-nominated English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a
provocative "dumb blonde" in British films of the 1950s, 1960s and
1970s.Contents1 Life and career
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 Television appearances
5 References
6 Sources
7 External linksLife and career[edit]
Fraser was born in Southwark,[2] London. Her year of birth was usually
attributed as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in
I'm All Right Jack, as the
Boulting BrothersBoulting Brothers wanted someone younger
for the part. She is actually three years older, confirmed in her
autobiography,
Liz FraserLiz Fraser ... and Other Characters, published by
Signum Books in 2012.[3] Her father was a travelling salesman for a
brewery and her mother owned a shop just off the New
KentKent Road
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John Welsh (actor)
John Welsh (7 November 1914 in
WexfordWexford – 21 April 1985 in London)
was an Irish actor.[2][3]Contents1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 References
4 External linksBiography[edit]
After an early stage career in Dublin, Welsh moved into British film
and television in the 1950s.[1] His roles included James Forsyte in
the 1967
BBCBBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, as
well as the butler Merriman in The Duchess of Duke Street, Sgt. Cuff
in The Moonstone and a brief scene as the barber in Brideshead
Revisited.[4] He also appeared in Hancock's Half Hour, The Brothers,
Prince Regent, To Serve Them All My Days and The Citadel, and played
the assistant chief constable in the early series of Softly,
Softly.[2] Welsh also appeared in a number of different roles on
Danger ManDanger Man that included British diplomats and butlers.[5]
Filmography[edit]The Accused (1953) - Mr
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